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Coming and Going for 2011 |
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Christmas so different but just beautiful Christmas day is celebrated differently in all parts of the world. We are two German girls who ... read more |
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2011 Fundraiser Bob and Timmy (Thai wife) and their daughter Dr. Debbie and her friend and co-worker Dr. Heidi (Chiropractors) put off a fundraiser for Sarnelli every year in Phoenix, Arizona... read more |
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Reach Out Day Christoph Leonard bought the usual Reach Out games and special lunch to the children of Sarnelli House in October. The games were eagerly anticipated and ... read more |
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Christmas party for Sarnelli House Every year, Gersheim School holds a Christmas party for Sarnelli House! ... read more |
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Rice Harvest While the terrible floods in Bangkok and central Thailand have inundated the countryside and the suburbs, much rice land has also been destroyed. ... read more |
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Halloween 2011 Halloween was celebrated in great style at Pai Si Tong this year. The Jan and Oscar House was the venue for a great meal featuring the newly harvested sticky rice, ...read more |
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At St Patrick's The routine work continues in the school holidays and the boys at St Patrick’s learn at a young age how to feed the pigs and the ducks and ... read more |
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Art School |
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Cookie Decorating |
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Professor Rob |
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Hairdressers at Sarnelli House |
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Kids Caring for Kids |
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Thoughts from a volunteer |
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Koh Samui |
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Staying Afloat and More Since the opening of the salt water pool in 2010, which was bequeathed to Sarnelli House by “Smitty” Creston Smith and is located behind the House of Hope, the children have... read more |
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Songkran 2011 The 3 day season of Songkran and the official start of the Thai new year, started on Wednesday 13 April 2011. At Sarnelli House it started under ... read more |
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Linsey Pluckrose I have just returned from my fourth amazing trip to Sarnelli House. I first visited Sarnelli with my good friend Andy, who had made the trip with Bupa 6 months before and was keen to return... read more |
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School Holiday 2011 The school holidays are heading into April with the first month gone already. Despite a cold start to the holidays with rain and weather down to 12 degrees which was unseasonably cold... read more |
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Visits Home The Thai New Year or Songkran falls in the school holidays and this is traditionally a very special time for families to get together. Some of the... read more |
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Graduation 2011 A record number of kids from Sarnelli House graduated school this year – 20 children in total. On March 5th at ... read more |
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End of School Year The countdown to the end of the school year is on. The Thai school holidays start in March and finish mid May. This time takes ... read more |
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Children's Day 2011 This year for Children’s Day January 2011 at Sarnelli House, Nok Air along with Udon Plaza Co Ltd picked up 40 children from each of the houses... read more |
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Hula Hoop The hula hoop craze has really taken hold in House of Hope. The little ones have been practicing for days to put on a show on Valentine’s Day ... read more |
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RIS Visit 2010 In December 2010 4 dedicated teachers and 4 local Thai staff from Ruamrudee International School (RIS) in Minburi, Bangkok visited Sarnelli House again... read more |
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Comings and Goings at Sarnelli House 2010 ... read more |
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Miss Dottie Miss Dottie’s life so far has not been easy. Dottie’s mother and father are both dead from HIV/AIDS and Dottie first came to Sarnelli House when she ... read more |
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Kids Caring for Kids' Raise Christmas Funds for Sarnelli Kids The fundraising took place after the November 27/28 weekend masses at St Jules Catholic Church in Lafayette, Louisiana, U.S.A. The Kids Caring for Kids organization, who ... read more |
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Christmas bazaar at Gersheim Comprehensive School (Germany) This year we celebrated the 10th anniversary of our famous and very popular Christmas bazaar. Ten years ago this day was established to ... read more |
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Rice Harvesting Up in the North East of Thailand despite the rainy season arriving late and causing a significant reduction in rice planting this year ... read more |
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Keeping the Teeth Clean In the school holidays this October, four volunteers bravely faced the Sarnelli House kids at 6.30 am, armed with their toothbrushes and toothpaste and ... read more |
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Hiew Hiew is a 15 year old boy who was previously living with his mother and occasionally staying with a friend in Khon Kaen when he ... read more |
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Holiday in Koh Samui After much dreaming and planning solidly for the last 6 months, 12 children from Sarnelli House experienced a one week trip of a lifetime in October this year. Christoph Leonard - General Manager of the Amari Palm Reef Koh Samui and long time supporter of Sarnelli House... read more |
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Thai TV On the 20th and 21st September 2010 a film crew from Channel 9 Thai TV came to Sarnelli House. They produce and run a weekly program shown on Sundays at 3pm about foreigners working in Thailand and contributing to Thai life.... read more |
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Ceboride 2010 The 2010 CEBORIDE held in Wisconsin USA on July 17, was a hot and humid day for the 29 bikers who rode 100 miles in about 7.5 hours. Each of the bikers carried a ... read more |
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Rice Planting With the rainy season scheduled to be dumping rain down to fill the rice paddies and replenish the dry fields, it has been a huge matter for concern that the rains have not yet arrived.... read more |
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Fr Shea’s birthday celebrations It began after mass on Saturday morning on 31st July 2010 at Sarnelli House. This birthday celebration was a big one - his 6th cycle or 72 years old.... read more |
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Camp June 2010 On two weekends in June, 16 teenagers all living with HIV/AIDS, from the Jan and Oscar House and Nazareth House attended a camp at Khon Kaen. The camp was run by the Infectious Diseases Team at ... read more |
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First Aid Training For three days, from May 25- 27th, 2010, Thai Red Cross came to Sarnelli House to deliver First Aid Training. The reasons for supporting such a training session for the staff are numerous... read more |
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Ben's death A while back, I wrote about a little guy, 13 years old but he looked about 8, named “Ben”. Ben came to us shortly after Piyanoot, and he looked like somebody in Dachau (Nazi prison camp). He was brought in by... read more |
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Caring for Noot Noot came to Sarnelli House in January 2010. Her Aunt and cousin came to see Fr Shea while Noot was in hospital. Noot was 16 years old and had only taken ill in the beginning of January... read more |
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Piyanoot (Noot) |
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Heema's sharing Heema …..aka Pi Mama! Within the first 5 minutes of my arrival at Sarnelli House I was ambushed by the lovely kids who dressed my hair with flowers. Overwhelming I thought! ... read more |
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Pattaya Holiday The buses left Nongkhai after the 6pm medicines were given out. There were some very excited kids who had packed their clothes, some 2 days before leaving. Bus 1 contained the girls from Viengkhuk and the toddlers from House of Hope, Bus 2 was the Love Bus with ... read more |
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The Pool The pool behind the House of Hope has finally been finished, and opening day wastoday. Thanks to the generous money left to Sarnelli House specifically to build a pool by Creston and Kanya Smith in Creston’s will ... read more |
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Holiday activities for March 2010 Aquarium Visit, Triathalon, English Teaching, Art and Craft Activities and Visit from Habitat for Humanity ... read more |
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"Kids Caring for Kids" Exchange Letters: Christian Kids in USA and Muslim Kids in Oman Caring for Orphan Kids in Thailand read more |
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Graduation 2010 On March 6th 2010, 10 children from Sarnelli House, in a ceremony at Rosario Witthayu School, graduated from Kindergarten and High School. The 6 who graduated from kindergarten were from 3 different houses. read more |
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The 10th Anniversary of Sarnelli House and the Opening of the Jan and Oscar Home |
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Reflection after a visit to Sarnelli House by Tracey Sauer |
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Kids Caring for Kids In 2007 Ally and Nick Carpenter of Katy Texas started sending part of their allowance to a kid named ‘Art’ at Sarnelli orphanage because he needed some help... read more |
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David Jacob's sharing Before heading to Thailand to volunteer at Sarnelli House many people asked me what the experience would be like. I usually responded by saying that I had no idea what to expect. While this response was partially true... read more |
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Halloween Party 2009 Halloween was celebrated at Sarnelli House on the 31st October 2009 and was a scary success. The evening started with all the kids coming over to Sarnelli House for a meal. Shows were then put on by all the houses – St Patrick’s boys did a skit ... read more |
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The Outreach Program and the New Clinic The Outreach Program covers 5 provinces of the Northeast Thailand and sees approximately 100 families. It provides for the primary needs ... read more |
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A Fairy Tale: Gan and Tha On Friday morning, September 18, Mrs. Gung from Sarnelli House received a strange phone call. A female voice inquired whether we had a girl named Gan living with us... read more |
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Who is Sarnelli? Sarnelli was a Redemptorist priest who lived in the 18th century. The following is an account of the life of Blessed Gennaro Sarnelli... read more (video) |
Sarnelli House is a project of the
Redemptorist Fathers of Thailand.
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